Welsh Journals

Herbert Butterfield: Magna Carta in the Historiography of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Stenton Lecture, 1968: University of Reading, 1969. 10s.) G. R. Elton: The Practice of History (Fontana Library, 1969. 7s. 6d.) E. H. Gombrich: In Search of Cultural History (Oxford University Press. 5s.) Clarence A. Stern: Republican Heyday: Republicanism through the McKinley Years (privately published, P.O. Box 1094, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, third printing, 1969.) SHORT NOTICES The Caernarvonshire County Record Office issued, as an additional separate appendix to the Archivist's annual report for 1968, its Bulletin, No. 1. It consists of xerographed copies of documents acquired by the Record Office during 1967-68. It has been sent separately to colleges, schools and libraries. If the response proves favourable, the Bulletin will be issued annually in the future. The Caernarvonshire Record Office also published an admirably illustrated volume, Caernarvonshire Records (pp. 70, 7s. 6d.) to commemorate the work of the Record Office during the twenty-one years, 1947-68. It served as the catalogue of an exhibition held at Caernarvon in October 1968. Harry Hearder, Ideological Commitment and Historical Interpretation (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1969. Pp. 23) is the inaugural lecture delivered by the new Professor of Modern History at the University College of South Wales on 26 November 1968. In this, Professor Hearder boldly considers the question of whether commitment to an ideology increases, diminishes, destroys or leaves intact the validity of the histor- ian's work. In passing, he takes issue with the rival views of E. H. Carr and G. R. Elton. The author endorses the Rankean defence of academic objectivity and impartiality, but denies that these qualities are possible only for an historian uncommitted to an ideology. His plea is essentially for the study of 'history in its own right', in which the spirit of scientific inquiry is infused by the creative imagination that can turn history into an art form. Towards other historians, whatever their cultural background or their ideological pre-suppositions, Professor Hearder's appeal is for an unrepressive tolerance. Gweithiau William Williams Pantycelyn, cyfrol II. Rhyddiaith. (Golyg- wyd gan Garfield H. Hughes. Cyhoeddwyd ar ran Bwrdd Gwybodau